Jacky Jiang
Principal Engineer at CSIRO
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJacky Jiang is a Principal Engineer based in Sydney with 15 years of experience delivering full-stack solutions across government and commercial sectors. Currently at CSIRO, he progressed from Senior Full Stack Engineer at Data61 and earlier roles as a Senior Systems Analyst, demonstrating steady technical leadership and systems thinking. He blends front-end UI work and back-end integration—evidenced by notable contributions to the TerriaJS geospatial platform where he improved timeline autoplay, fixed data display issues, and integrated Magda catalog items. Jacky’s background in network engineering and a Master in Professional Computing give him a strong foundation in both infrastructure and application-level concerns. He’s comfortable navigating complex data pipelines and geospatial integrations, often tackling subtle cross-layer bugs that unlock better UX and data fidelity. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices that keep research-grade platforms production-ready.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Network Engineering, Bachelor's degree Network Engineering at Information Engineering UniversityMaster Professional Computing, Master Professional Computing at University of South Australia
Github Skills (10)
webgl10
cesiumjs10
javascript10
react10
user-data9
data-model9
3d9
data-set9
wms8
catalog8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
TerriaJS/terriajs
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
A library for building rich, web-based geospatial 2D & 3D data platforms.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 29 commits, 25 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jacky contributed significantly to the `terriajs` library, primarily focusing on enhancements to the core application and the `MagdaCatalogItem` component. Their work involved modifying the behavior of time-series data auto-play, fixing data source display errors, and adding support for the `MagdaCatalogItem` with updated features. These changes touch on both the front-end (Timeline component) and the back-end (data handling and integration) aspects of the geospatial data platform.
3ddata-platformgeospatialjavascriptterriajs
magda-io/magda-minion-visualization
Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:7 releases, 5 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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